Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.